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    "id": 1092311,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I wanted to contribute to this Petition because it is a very important one. That is why I was trying to catch your eye. This Petition is quite important knowing very well that there are issues concerning private schools. I want to bring to the attention of the Members that we do not have private students and public students. We are all Kenyans. The fact that exams are marked in a manner that would suggest that they are skewed is very worrying and disturbing for parents across the board. Parents with children in private and public schools all augment one another. The Government should look at private schools as augmenting the lack of resources by the Government and, therefore, assisting the Government to provide education in this country. I do not want them to look at private schools as competitors of public schools. In this sense, a person establishing a private school could otherwise… Students in private schools are about 500,000. If those students are offloaded to public schools, it will be a total disaster. Currently, 100 per cent transition is a problem in almost all schools in this country. I would like to ask Members to note that every year, there is an increase of between eight and 10 per cent of students joining Form One. Therefore, even if we put in more money into the NG-CDF, we will always have a shortage of classrooms in all the years to come unless we come up with a very serious Marshall Plan where we invest over Kshs20 billion to have enough classrooms in this country. The fact that we need to mark exams and bring integrity into the education sector is quite important. I remember that before the Matiang’i education reforms of 2015, the Departmental Committee on Education and Research went to South Africa and found that some universities were trying to give Kenyans pre-university exams because of lack of integrity. However, because of that surgery that took place at that time, we actually gained back our respect in the international society. So, if the issue that the petitioners are raising actually exists, we need to look at it and make sure that exams retain the integrity that is required in the Republic and Kenyans will have a name even in the international society. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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